Case-Based (Memory-Based) Medical Knowledge Acquisition and Processing

The "frame problem" is at the core of artificial intelligence and decision making research and is directly related to the intelligent agents' ability to learn from experience, to the choice for knowledge representation and to the exhaustiveness of their knowledge bases. Case-based reasoning is an important paradigm in artificial intelligence, in the context of expert system development. A case-based reasoning expert comprises the case base, which can be regarded as a memory of past experiences of problem-solving, and a case matching procedure for the retrieval of cases relevant for a new problem. While humans seem to possess a natural support for these two components, this kind of knowledge acquisition and processing is not directly supported by computers